Sydyk

Sydyk (Συδυκ, in some manuscripts Sydek or Sedek) was the name of a deity appearing in a theogeny provided by Roman-era Phoenician writer Philo of Byblos in an account preserved by Eusebius in his Praeparatio evangelica and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon.

Robert R. Cargill has recently argued in favor of etymologizing Melchizedek as “my king is Zedek”, a deity postulated to have been worshipped in pre-Israelite Jerusalem and a possible forerunner of Sydyk.